Friday, February 23, 2018

Aaron Norris Is Joined By Sterling Jawitz of Common on the Real Estate Radio Show #579

This week Aaron Norris is joined Sterling Jawitz of Common. He is head of the real estate strategic partnerships at Common where he is in charge of growing and maintaining relationships with large-scale real estate developers, owners, and investors in all target markets. As a first employee of Common, Sterling spent more than a year as head of real estate acquisitions, focusing on real estate acquisition, strategy, project-specific analysis. Prior to Common, he focused on real estate development in New York City, specializing in high density co-living spaces that provide a social and professional development services and amenities. He also worked in real estate capital markets, primarily with institutional investors looking to deploy equity and debt.

Aaron and Sterling discuss Common and their main focus, the different types of co-living scenarios and whether they are the same or different, misconceptions people have about co-living, what is included in a Common living space, the typical interior design for a Common 4-5 bedroom living space, whether they have a team member who places the right people together, ground-up development, and much more on the real estate radio show and podcast.

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Friday, February 16, 2018

Aaron Norris Is Joined By Steve Basten of John Burns Real Estate Consulting on the Real Estate Radio Show #578

This week Aaron Norris is joined by Steve Basten of John Burns Real Estate Consulting. He supports the firms building products research, including their in-depth forecasts of building products spending in new construction and remodeling end markets and, additionally, is responsible for demand forecasting and sector coverage of all residential building product categories. Before joining John Burns Real Estate Consulting, Steve worked for Kohler Co. as a product manager, responsible for new product development priorities and scheduling and, prior, in Kohler's Corporate Development office as an M&A analyst where he was responsible for valuation analysis, deal-flow management, and competitive benchmarking for all of Kohler’s business units. He has an in-depth understanding of the residential construction industry from financial outlook to interior design trends and is very passionate about new product development and innovation.

Aaron and Steve discuss whether HGTV has ruined the building industry, whether innovation is outpacing regulation, factors that make design and finish trendy versus classic, whether black colors and paint will be in this year and out the next, the definition of simplified customization, much more on the real estate radio show and podcast.

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Friday, February 9, 2018

Aaron Norris Is Joined By Steve Basten of John Burns Real Estate Consulting on the Real Estate Radio Show #577

This week Aaron Norris is joined by Steve Basten of John Burns Real Estate Consulting. Here,he supports the firms building products research, including their in-depth forecasts of building products spending in new construction and remodeling end markets and, additionally, is responsible for demand forecasting and sector coverage of all residential building product categories. Before joining John Burns Real Estate Consulting, Steve worked for Kohler Co. as a product manager, responsible for new product development priorities and scheduling and, prior, in Kohler's Corporate Development office as an M&A analyst where he was responsible for valuation analysis, deal-flow management, and competitive benchmarking for all of Kohler’s business units. He has an in-depth understanding of the residential construction industry from financial outlook to interior design trends and is very passionate about new product development and innovation.

Aaron and Steve discuss John Burns Real Estate Consulting and the main goal they strive for in their business, where design starts for things like buildings and Home Depot and Lowes products some new housing trends and where we should expect to see them, micro and co-living, surban neighborhoods, much more on the real estate radio show and podcast.

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Thursday, February 1, 2018

Bruce Norris Is Joined By John Bohannon of BuildZig on the Real Estate Radio Show #576

This week Bruce Norris is joined again by John Bohannon of BuildZig. John took his first interest in shop class for the construction industry at large in elementary school and has turned it into a career. He is the director of business development at BuildZig, a funds control firm that has been in the industry since 1936. John is a licensed general contractor, certified construction inspector, registered home inspector, and a certified review appraiser.

Bruce and John discuss Joint Control Escrow Licensing, the hottest market and where he sees the most activity, co-living and micro-apartments, the newest business incubator, whether other states like California utilized heavy regulations after the downturn, the biggest mistakes funds control catches, popular projects these days, whether the recent fires will affect construction, and much, much more on the real estate radio show and podcast.

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